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Der Untergang (The Downfall) is a recent critically-acclaimed film about the last days of the Third Reich. Some bright spark had the enterprise to give the original film obviously wrong subtitles and others followed suit. Some of them are pure comedy gold.

Here's a question: why is Hitler funny? People were making fun of Hitler in 1940 (Charlie Chaplin in The Great Dictator), and probably before. Since World War II, we've continued to make fun of him. I myself laugh at this stuff. I just don't understand why. Josef Stalin, Pol Pot, Chairman Mao, etc., were horrific dictators responsible for the deaths of millions. We don't portray them in a humorous manner; if someone tried to do so, it would probably either be considered bad taste or simply fall flat.

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"I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones." - Linus Torvalds, April 1991

"When Stalin instructed his lieutenants to 'pound the peasant', they took it literally."

Chairman Mao was made fun of on Monty Python.

I think it has a lot to do with personality aspects. There's more to make fun of in Hitler's case. Notice that all of these clips revolve around Hitler getting really, really angry, which you can't say for the cool, reserved dictators of the East.